Catherine the Great
By: Simon Dixon
Series: Profiles in power (London, England); Profiles in power (London, England)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781315844428
Subjects: Empresses; Biography; History; Impératrices; Biographies; Histoire
Notes: "First published 2001 by Pearson Education Ltd."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. The problem of power; title: ch. 2. Catherine takes power; title: ch. 3. Images of power; title: ch. 4. The power of ideas : Catherine and the philosophes; title: ch. 5. Catherine and Russian political culture; title: ch. 6. Enlightened despotism; title: ch. 7. Power relationships in Russia; title: ch. 8. Russia as a European great power; title: ch. 9. Epilogue : power transferred and transformed.